Migrant workers restricted to farms under one grower’s virus lockdown
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America will sacrifice anything for the college experience
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Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal
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Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
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Last exit from autocracy
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Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999)
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Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year
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K: The overlooked variable that's driving the pandemic
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What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States
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Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death
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Gas companies are abandoning their wells, leaving them to leak methane forever
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DeJoy tells judge mail-sorting machines can’t be reassembled
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Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power
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Carole King - It's Too Late (1971)
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Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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The elusive peril of space junk - Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?
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The NASA team that kills spacecraft
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The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level
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Ultra Strips Down is a Danish children's TV show that aims to counter a social media that bombards young people with images of perfect bodies
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How to be a mystical materialist
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Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes
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Why the orange sky looks gray in some photos
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My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda
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How a massive bomb came together in Beirut’s port
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California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender
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Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers
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A Seattle police officer’s extraordinary pay raises questions SPD can’t answer
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California
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Brazil hands out so much Covid cash that poverty nears a low
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
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Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
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Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US FAA approval
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Confessions of a former bastard cop
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Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years.
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Your coronavirus test is positive. Maybe it shouldn’t be
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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres.
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The value of extended families
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How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history
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Mozilla: The greatest tech company left behind
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How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
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Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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How to think like an epidemiologist
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Seeing around corners
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What is MasterClass actually selling?
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Sweatpants forever
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The workforce is about to change dramatically
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Immunology is where intuition goes to die
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The ways that a cheese can go extinct, and the cheesemakers who are working to save them
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